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Security Accounts Manager

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Security Accounts Manager (SAM) This service is responsible for managing the database that contains the user names and groups defined on the local machine. The SAM service, which is implemented in Samsrv.dll, is loaded into the Lsass process.

(Russinovich et al., 2017, p. 608)

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